I had the honour to meet Daniel while here in Iceland- He blew my mind completely- spoke only icelandic together- on his 6th day in Iceland- I have met people who have had years to learn our difficult language and he had passed most of them in those few days. No fake there
I've read about another man with similar abilities. They found that the part of his brain that was responsible for autonomous actions (think breathing, heartbeat, heat regulation, etc) wasn't in the correct place and the part of his brain that was used for things like math was there. Better put, when they scanned his brain and asked him to preform math the parts that 'lit' up where parts normally associated with autonomous behavior. So when we hear a math problem and try to think/calculate it out we use a specific part of our brain to do that. For this individual, it was automatic. He didn't 'think' it out. His brain did it for him. Very fascinating stuff. Individuals with missing limbs experience (I believe it's called, I may be wrong) neuroplasticity. Essentially since they don't have, for example, arms there brain makes use of this area of the brain that is not being used for other actions. This allows these individuals to have highly advanced motor functions with their feet -- being able to essentially do everything most people do with their hands. Blind individuals have experienced the ability to teach themselves 'sonar' because a large chunk of their brain usually used for vision has been opened up and they are able to find new use for it. The brain is incredible. It's a powerhouse. Take care of it and never doubt your abilities. You can do much more than you truly think!
This man is very kind to allow us to gain understanding from his unique gift, in the hope all of humanity may benefit. The possibilities of unlocking a new way of teaching or learning or understanding the world around us is very exciting. I hope they respect his well being as the work with him. I thank you Daniel for giving so much of yourself to others.
This makes me think: Are there any animal prodigies out there? Like, can we quantify that one dog is many times more intelligent than other dogs of the same breed?
It's amazing that in addition to reciting Pi to 22,000 digits, he also knows exactly when he's delivered the 22nd thousandth digit and can declare, "done!"
i find this so fascinating, just how an accident (like the baseball to the head) or the seizure has resulted in this change in the brain to produce this incredible cases of memory and intelligence. what makes it even more amazing is that the same injuries could have happened to anyone else, and they would be wheelchair bound and disabled. the brain is such a mystery.
Why are there always people to push things down? This man is impressive, if he is capable to learn techniques or to see how ever he does, this peoples mind are evolved and this is wondful. Most of us can not do this, so my respect to him. Thanks for sharing.
TH-cam comments make me want to jump off a bridge. I'd like to see all the people saying he is a liar try and come close to what he does. Daniel is brilliant.
Plenty of others have learned to calculate better than him. Look up "Tsujikubo super brain" (without quotes) on TH-cam. And if some commenter is unable to do the same kind of calculations, that doesn't mean that Daniel is not making up some parts of his story. He probably has synaesthesia and autism like he says, but the details he gives about his method of calculation have probably been made to sound more mystical than they are, for the show.
GenesisStrike1 A person wrote random number (of my choice) on a board. He said it will take him zero second to memories it. I said, "fuck off". Well, turns out that he did. He could recite them from back to fro, diagonally, row wise, cloumn wise, you name it. He could also tell me the day i was born when i told him my DOB. I was amazed. He taught me some tricks. Hear me what i tell you. When you play with numbers do not look at the numbers. Picture something in your head that you are fimiliar with. Or you could always use the environment that you are in. Now give the objects a number in a particular pattern with a story. (You only need 10 objects) That's how you do it. About the day of any year and date. Its a tricks. You might wanna collect calanders of different years and look at them carefully. Once you know the formula it will make you look like an intelligent one, like Daniel. Look close you'll crack it. He could be a scam artist. I am no genius but i could. Thank you
And his pi record was not valid as well, he made his first mistake at position 2965, therefore he doesn’t hold the European record. In the end, his record was removed from the “pi world ranking list”. I don’t know who remove the record, but I think it’s for marketing purpose since the vast majority of his videos and books are using his old record.
His high functioning synaesthesia is truly outstanding; indeed, even his social skills are highly developed as opposed to the intermingled sensory limitations often common to autistic-type states. By comparison, my synaesthesia is 'mild', but it has permitted me 'sheer memory' when preparing for examinations et al. Daniel is truly in a league of his very own! Appreciate the download. Best wishes.
Correct, it's like a trade-off when people suffer from such a dramatic change with their brain like rain man John forbs Nash that had schizophrenia that was a math genius 😳 and many other cases like the chess player few of them
i recently discovered i can do something similar with numbers and that i might (pretty sure) have autism. I've never trained it because school scared me away from matematics, but definitly will try and do it now :D I also have a veeery good memory. Also; his birthday is my birthday ! :D ^^ #theageofaquarius ^^ nb. ofcourse i am no way near this level of genius, just found the similiratise funny
If anything, this program(me) illustrates the importance of creativity to intelligence itself. If I can manage to invoke a strategy of mentally pairing numbers with shapes, colors, sensations, and animations such that they are vivid and memorable that must only be the beginning of my capacity to learn well. The rest comes down to how effective the mental experience of the information is toward making the answer apparent. Children are extremely imaginative and they learn so rapidly. That, to me, is a statement suggesting a correlation between the two.
The first thing that came to mind when I saw the story of Orlando was To Aru majutsu no Index and the story of the espers. Particularly the part about 'creating your own reality'. Maybe these two are able to do what they do because they have a strong belief that they can, as they both have had their brains affected somehow. You hear a similar thing when you ask people how they can break a wooden board in Karate, they respond with that you have to believe that you can.
The amazing thing about his pi recital is that A) He does it so fast and B) He took a break part way through and then commenced right from that point at the same speed.
i can feel tha number everyday..just same like him but he can know faster than me..but sometime i can know fast too..and i know all 1 of 1 digit what it effect..i know it sound like funny..with my broken english..OH MY ENGLISHHHH..but im telling you i feel it everyday every time
Yes, very much. There's too much to go into here, but a few points: -Baron Cohen (from the doc) actually remained unconvinced that DT wasn't using mnemonics (they left this out). -The play-doh test is flimsy and easily hackable by any decent mneumonist. Foer gave DT a harder consistency test and he completely failed. - A big part of DT's autism diagnosis was that he performed names/faces recognition at a 6 year old level. At the 2000 Memory Championships he got a gold in names and faces.
@jawk321 You're correct in saying that Freudian psychoanalysis is considered outdated. Generally psychiatry is adopting a more neuroscientific approach. As the Dean of Harvard Med School, Joseph B. Martin, said in The American Journal of Psychology; "The separation of [neurology and psychiatry] is arbitrary, often influenced by beliefs rather than proven scientific observations. And the fact that the brain and mind are one makes the separation artificial anyway." Which is exactly my point.
A lot of people do the Rubik blind folded. At the top level it's more about how well you physically work the cube in your hand. Rubik is not a very hard problem to solve.
+gartios11 dude. its fucking easy to solve cube blindfold. i suck at maths yet i solve cube. problem is people thinking solving cube and winning in chess,or sudoku makes u intelligent.
*I wonder if anybody could adopt an ACCENT of a language in a week. How incredible would that be! Imagine a man didn`t speak your language, and in a week he walks up to you and speaks to you like he was born in your country.*
society should really praise and esteem geniuses more. Intelligence has transformed our reality since we first emerged from the savannas of Africa. People with very high intelligence have much to teach us and we would do well to hold them in high regard and afford high stature in our society.
***** Well, in the first 3-4 minutes of the video he makes it evidence that it has nothing to do with memory but, instead, with seeing numbers as shapes and patterns. On a side note, I dare you to come 4th in a memory championship, if you call it an intellectual failing.
@pgdrums12 A photon isn't the only quantum, it's the quantum of electromagnetic interaction. Strong interaction has gluons, weak interaction has W and Z bosons and quantum gravity has gravitons (the latter is currently still theoretical).
I just bought "Born on A Blue Day" today and it's fantastic. He is so descriptive of everything about his life and it's so interesting the way he thinks.
division is easy in your head, you can go on forever because you only need to remember 2 numbers. 13/97: fits 0 times, so say 0, add a 0 -> 130 / 97 fits once, say 1, subract 1x97 from 130 = 33 add a 0 ->330 fits 3 times, say 3, subract 3x97 from 330 = 39 add a 0 ->390 fits 4 times, say 4 etc..
edit: The Japanese kids learning maths with the abacus later in the show are amazing, they just show what can be done with learned ability. The ancient Greeks also trained thier minds I believe.. I'll be teaching my kids with an abacus I think, and getting them to learn higher grade work at home is certainly no bad thing! Interesting that the best schools in the World, the East Asian, are based on what the West USED to have in the 19th & 20th century - we need to bring back the will to succeed.
@WireMosasaur I've been diagnosed as being within the Autistic Spectrum too. You suggest that your friend has had synthesia. Have you ever experienced it? Just curious. I myself have experienced something similiar, perhaps not exactly the same, having to do with texture. I remember as a child there was a certain type of paper that some magazines were printed on that really bothered me. They made me feel like I couldn't breath, so I would cut long slits into it, to make it less smooth.
Division to an indefinite number of decimal places really isn't as impressive as it seems because it's not necessary to remember all the previous digits. For example, 10/7 = 1 + 3/7. First digit: 1. Next, 30/7 = 4 + 2/7. Second digit: 4. Next, 20/7 = 2 + 6/7. Third digit: 2. 60/7 = 8 + 4/7. Fourth digit: 8. 40/7 = 5 + 5/7. Fifth digit: 5. Next, 50/7 = 7 + 1/7. Sixth digit: 7. And so on: just blurt out whatever digit you're at and keep going on. 1/7 = 0.142857...
I believe it, i have aspergers symdrome and i watched life of pi and got obsessed with learning pi and since last ive memorised the first 100 decimals of pi
Can we all have a sense of humor about: Daniel’s special gift allows for countless math-language-related job opportunities and real world applications. Orlando can tell you past days of the week and past weather. LOL … it really is hit or miss with the savant gifts. 😆🍺🤯
Re-watch it and the "mistake" wasn't a mistake at all. They just did a jump-cut to about 30 seconds ahead. You can also tell by the LED timer they have sitting in front of the camera. There's no way he'd take 35 seconds just to get 12 decimals in.
I dont usually "like" videos, and get into all that stuff. But how do people dislike this video???? is he saying anything to harm anyone? People are so fucking stupid it irritates me. All it's about is a man doing what he wants to, and personally i think it's amazing. I'm just sick of people "disliking" a video just because the button is there.
I read his book "Born on a Blue Day" now during the summer for extra credit when I start my AP Psychology class. I love learning about this. It's really amazing I wish I could meet someone so extraordinary like both of them. ( xD I sound like a nerd- I'm a nerd for Psychology * shrugs*)
So 19MouBowSeTie88! (for example) is a bad password? If I had this password all I need to remember is Mouse and Bowtie and split it up along with the date I was born and a ''!'' at the end. How is this weaker than z93vh34Gpdq2448= given that someone uses a bruteforce program without restrictions on how many attempts it has in a given timeframe. I don't doubt that you're right, just read some article about this some time ago on Huffington or something so I'm curious.
Even using a mnemonic device to memorize 22.5k numbers would be incredibly impressive. However, you are forgetting that he is also able to perform math calculations of arbitrary complexity at random. There is no application of any mnemonic device that would allow you to do this.
This just shows what the human brain is capable of, maths is not my cup of tea, I can speak English, dutch, french, spanish *fluently*, right now I'm learning arabic. Arabic is such a beautiful language, I can't write it yet but I am able to speak it
***** Damn who pissed in your cheerios this morning.... Daniel Tammet is not an artist, you're just an ignorant pessimistic grump. And I'm not even claiming that speaking 4-5 languages is "special" I just say I can, in reference to how hard I suck at math. Who are you reffering to as a "superhuman"...... And you have no right to call another man, that you don't know lazy, I worked hard to where I am at life right now and so do millions of others. Take your negativity somewhere else, if you like it or not, Daniel Tammet is an extraordinary person, capable of things you can only dream of
***** You can hate on me, you have all right to, freedom of speech you know :) Ok, is he real? We don't know, as long as there's no proof of him not being real or proof that he is, we don't know and we can not say this or that because than it'd be just an opinion based on our own thoughts. You made one clear point, indeed he has never been publicated or anything, I first saw him on here, which dates from several years ago, this is really strange, to be the worlds smartest man eventhough not much people know of you. Strange
He starts at 5:50 and 8 seconds later at 5:58 it shows that the tracker of the numbers is 5 lines from the bottom. 6 lines of numbers in a mere 8 seconds is crazy. Anyways, he says 3.141592653582 where you thought he was wrong, but he then continues and says 0974944. After the last digit in 3.141592653589 it should be 7932384. If he was wrong, the people keeping track would've stopped him. So technically your point is invalid. Also, don't take this personally, I'm just trying to make a point. :]
omg how amazing ! .. now im even more embarrassed how i struggle helping my kids w their homework! i dont even remember what day of the week my kids were born, and no clue what weather we had ! oh goodness !!
it doesn't make sense that the man insists that they haven't let him memorise it and show it by testing him again, that doesn't prove anything that the original question didn't
@TheAthenasblades I do believe you're referring to the genius that is occasionally produced by autism. The case studies in this video is not based on autism but rather accidental neural connections created in the brain either by accident or by epilepsy. With what little I understand about epilepsy, I do remember from my psychology studies that it is caused by the 2 hemispheres of the brain passing too many chemical reactions from both sides. Split-brain surgery is/was a common cure for seizures.
@thebrutalizer15 Synesthesia is like you're sensing (seeing, hearing, etc.) something that was not really there when you see, hear, etc. other things. Like seeing these letters in color which in reality is black and feeling strange emotions out of letters. Daniel Tammet's synesthesia is a Number Form.
@lexagon I don't disagree that neuron transmitters are macroscopic, that's scientific fact. I also can see that you are knowledgeable, and it's great to converse with someone on this subject! I think we have to be careful though on what we label as 'pseudoscientific'. Many academics believe that modern psychology is pseudoscientific too. I believe that we have to keep an open mind to different possibilities, even if they do seem like science fiction. The universe is very mysterious.
13/97 is easy because 97 is very close to 100... so when you do the thing you can easily calculate each decimal: "0,..." then you do 130/97 so it will be "1,..." because just assume you're doing 130/100 and 33 remain, so you do 330/97 and it will be 3, but 30+3*3 remain and 390/97 will be 4 and 2 remain etc etc... it's an easy calculation that will get you all the decimals. Nonetheless, he did it quite fast, most people would take at least twice or thrice the time he took. Well "he did it" he certainly didn't use such a pragmatic method, his brain gave him the answer.
So the music playing during the section where he calculates pie - does anyone know what that song is? Because I've heard it other places and I'd like to buy the track.
I think it might help you to realize that 'Intelligence' isn't a single attribute like height for example. Intelligence can manifest itself in numerous ways, whether its logic + reasoning ,creativity, artistry, communication, emotional intelligence, musicality , perception + self-awareness, understanding,empathy, spirituality, - the list goes on. For me though ,perhaps the most important is one (amongst several) which your post shows ; Inquisitiveness.
This is seriously something from Marvel. He has an event happen young that allows him to realize his potential. I hope he has a good life, I'm sure he has his struggles as well
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I had the honour to meet Daniel while here in Iceland- He blew my mind completely- spoke only icelandic together- on his 6th day in Iceland- I have met people who have had years to learn our difficult language and he had passed most of them in those few days. No fake there
He was there for four days
Iceland is a cool place 😎
I am like Daniel Tammet in reverse, i got the numbers all wrong... maybe im also special.
+ikawpipa in a way.
Hahahaha you surely made my day xD
yes you are genius
yemmat leinad is ur new handle then ikawpipa
that is genius sir
I can recite 500,000 pi numbers, just not in order...
Tsundere Shark pretty sure no. Ones asked.
That would take roughly 4 days and nights so you would fall asleep before you could say them all.
I would only be impressed by that if that was the unordered set of the first 500,000 decimals. Otherwise you could just recite any digit 500,000 times
Well since Pi is infinite, eventually they would be in order
@WestieB tienes un par de errores. (2384 (6)2643383 (27)
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I've read about another man with similar abilities. They found that the part of his brain that was responsible for autonomous actions (think breathing, heartbeat, heat regulation, etc) wasn't in the correct place and the part of his brain that was used for things like math was there. Better put, when they scanned his brain and asked him to preform math the parts that 'lit' up where parts normally associated with autonomous behavior. So when we hear a math problem and try to think/calculate it out we use a specific part of our brain to do that. For this individual, it was automatic. He didn't 'think' it out. His brain did it for him. Very fascinating stuff. Individuals with missing limbs experience (I believe it's called, I may be wrong) neuroplasticity. Essentially since they don't have, for example, arms there brain makes use of this area of the brain that is not being used for other actions. This allows these individuals to have highly advanced motor functions with their feet -- being able to essentially do everything most people do with their hands. Blind individuals have experienced the ability to teach themselves 'sonar' because a large chunk of their brain usually used for vision has been opened up and they are able to find new use for it.
The brain is incredible. It's a powerhouse. Take care of it and never doubt your abilities. You can do much more than you truly think!
i agree im a scientist
This man is very kind to allow us to gain understanding from his unique gift, in the hope all of humanity may benefit. The possibilities of unlocking a new way of teaching or learning or understanding the world around us is very exciting. I hope they respect his well being as the work with him. I thank you Daniel for giving so much of yourself to others.
This makes me think: Are there any animal prodigies out there? Like, can we quantify that one dog is many times more intelligent than other dogs of the same breed?
The Isaiahnator ikr
The Isaiahnator good question. I may start an acedamy to hunt animal prodigies.
+Damien Williams ur mums stupid then
This is a great question and one that i have never considered
Probably but on their terms. Like Coco. But then again we measure their intelligence according to us.
It's amazing that in addition to reciting Pi to 22,000 digits, he also knows exactly when he's delivered the 22nd thousandth digit and can declare, "done!"
Nice point!
10 years late but it was actually 22,514 digits, but he still knew when to stop exactly so your point still stands
Fun fact: This video will most likely throw you into an epileptic seizure, but you won't come out as smart as Daniel.
Nothing happened to me. I still remained at a pleb-level IQ of 141 after this video.
brilliant does not even begin to describe the wonder of this man.
I can't even recite what pie I ate last.
I can’t-
P=can
Pie over beer squared @@TheStRyder91
i find this so fascinating, just how an accident (like the baseball to the head) or the seizure has resulted in this change in the brain to produce this incredible cases of memory and intelligence. what makes it even more amazing is that the same injuries could have happened to anyone else, and they would be wheelchair bound and disabled. the brain is such a mystery.
Why are there always people to push things down?
This man is impressive, if he is capable to learn techniques or to see how ever he does, this peoples mind are evolved and this is wondful.
Most of us can not do this, so my respect to him.
Thanks for sharing.
TH-cam comments make me want to jump off a bridge. I'd like to see all the people saying he is a liar try and come close to what he does. Daniel is brilliant.
Absolutely true. I'm sure that these people are remarkably jealous of what Daniel can do.
Plenty of others have learned to calculate better than him. Look up "Tsujikubo super brain" (without quotes) on TH-cam. And if some commenter is unable to do the same kind of calculations, that doesn't mean that Daniel is not making up some parts of his story. He probably has synaesthesia and autism like he says, but the details he gives about his method of calculation have probably been made to sound more mystical than they are, for the show.
GenesisStrike1 A person wrote random number (of my choice) on a board. He said it will take him zero second to memories it. I said, "fuck off".
Well, turns out that he did. He could recite them from back to fro, diagonally, row wise, cloumn wise, you name it. He could also tell me the day i was born when i told him my DOB. I was amazed.
He taught me some tricks.
Hear me what i tell you. When you play with numbers do not look at the numbers. Picture something in your head that you are fimiliar with. Or you could always use the environment that you are in. Now give the objects a number in a particular pattern with a story. (You only need 10 objects) That's how you do it.
About the day of any year and date. Its a tricks. You might wanna collect calanders of different years and look at them carefully. Once you know the formula it will make you look like an intelligent one, like Daniel. Look close you'll crack it. He could be a scam artist. I am no genius but i could.
Thank you
And his pi record was not valid as well, he made his first mistake at position 2965, therefore he doesn’t hold the European record. In the end, his record was removed from the “pi world ranking list”. I don’t know who remove the record, but I think it’s for marketing purpose since the vast majority of his videos and books are using his old record.
His high functioning synaesthesia is truly outstanding; indeed, even his social skills are highly developed as opposed to the intermingled sensory limitations often common to autistic-type states. By comparison, my synaesthesia is 'mild', but it has permitted me 'sheer memory' when preparing for examinations et al. Daniel is truly in a league of his very own! Appreciate the download. Best wishes.
this is how they will develop ZNT from the film Limitless.
NZT*
The fact that the newspaper article was titled “FREAK OF NATURE” absolutely infuriates me.
Who IS the freak🥴🥴
He could be a great chess player!!!!!
Actually he is not. Obviously he tried that, but his intelligence is of a different kind
Daniel is certainly gifted 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Correct, it's like a trade-off when people suffer from such a dramatic change with their brain like rain man John forbs Nash that had schizophrenia that was a math genius 😳 and many other cases like the chess player few of them
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I need to speak with this man.
At 5 minutes in, I heard that magical American Beauty music.... beautiful.
Phillip Adkins
Some things cannot be described by language. Such is the limitation of the human mind.
Just like mathematics is limited, and physics, and chemistry. They are all just scratching the surface
I see that you have never spoken in Polish.
Thank you for all the comments below and to Daniel Tammet. For me, so called normal, what a wonderful world🥰
i recently discovered i can do something similar with numbers and that i might (pretty sure) have autism. I've never trained it because school scared me away from matematics, but definitly will try and do it now :D I also have a veeery good memory.
Also; his birthday is my birthday ! :D ^^
#theageofaquarius ^^
nb. ofcourse i am no way near this level of genius, just found the similiratise funny
similarities
Do it! 👌🏼👏
If anything, this program(me) illustrates the importance of creativity to intelligence itself. If I can manage to invoke a strategy of mentally pairing numbers with shapes, colors, sensations, and animations such that they are vivid and memorable that must only be the beginning of my capacity to learn well. The rest comes down to how effective the mental experience of the information is toward making the answer apparent. Children are extremely imaginative and they learn so rapidly. That, to me, is a statement suggesting a correlation between the two.
This video is a little scary x)
I've to watch it in English class ...
So what a brilliant guy !
Jehanne TheELSS I agree with you ! Brilliant guy !
Claire Claire Yeah of course
I read the book "Born on a Blue Day", which is Daniel's memoir and I'm very excited to be able to watch this documentary on TH-cam!
AHH 240p we meet again
Lool at his Icelandic, SUCH a thick accent, but BRAVO since it's a ridicilously hard language..
This guy is amazing.. Looking forward to other parts.
The first thing that came to mind when I saw the story of Orlando was To Aru majutsu no Index and the story of the espers. Particularly the part about 'creating your own reality'. Maybe these two are able to do what they do because they have a strong belief that they can, as they both have had their brains affected somehow. You hear a similar thing when you ask people how they can break a wooden board in Karate, they respond with that you have to believe that you can.
The amazing thing about his pi recital is that A) He does it so fast and B) He took a break part way through and then commenced right from that point at the same speed.
He's like Rain Man.
He meets the real life rainman Kim Peek.
Huge fan...
i can feel tha number everyday..just same like him but he can know faster than me..but sometime i can know fast too..and i know all 1 of 1 digit what it effect..i know it sound like funny..with my broken english..OH MY ENGLISHHHH..but im telling you i feel it everyday every time
Yes, very much. There's too much to go into here, but a few points:
-Baron Cohen (from the doc) actually remained unconvinced that DT wasn't using mnemonics (they left this out).
-The play-doh test is flimsy and easily hackable by any decent mneumonist. Foer gave DT a harder consistency test and he completely failed.
- A big part of DT's autism diagnosis was that he performed names/faces recognition at a 6 year old level. At the 2000 Memory Championships he got a gold in names and faces.
i just recently was assigned Daniel Tammet's memoir as an outside reading book for my junior english class, what an amazing book!
i hate the background cartoon music while he is memorizing all those numbers!
@jawk321
You're correct in saying that Freudian psychoanalysis is considered outdated. Generally psychiatry is adopting a more neuroscientific approach. As the Dean of Harvard Med School, Joseph B. Martin, said in The American Journal of Psychology; "The separation of [neurology and psychiatry] is arbitrary, often influenced by beliefs rather than proven scientific observations. And the fact that the brain and mind are one makes the separation artificial anyway." Which is exactly my point.
"fatal blow"
If you have the gift, how can you contribute to improve and heal this planet?
I would like to see him memorize a rubik's cube then do it blind folded
Non savant people can actually do that.
A lot of people do the Rubik blind folded. At the top level it's more about how well you physically work the cube in your hand. Rubik is not a very hard problem to solve.
He probably can solve it in very less moves, coz it needs more complex analysis
+gartios11 dude. its fucking easy to solve cube blindfold. i suck at maths yet i solve cube. problem is people thinking solving cube and winning in chess,or sudoku makes u intelligent.
Right on pal. You said it best than every other comment on these pages.
*I wonder if anybody could adopt an ACCENT of a language in a week. How incredible would that be! Imagine a man didn`t speak your language, and in a week he walks up to you and speaks to you like he was born in your country.*
awe-inspiring..the brain is more powerful and deeper than we can presently comprehend
society should really praise and esteem geniuses more.
Intelligence has transformed our reality since we first emerged from the savannas of Africa.
People with very high intelligence have much to teach us and we would do well to hold them in high regard and afford high stature in our society.
the man, the legend, the genius....daniel tammet
This guy is amazing. Also, he changed his family name to Tammet because he liked estonian language, which is my home language :) That's so cool!
***** Well, in the first 3-4 minutes of the video he makes it evidence that it has nothing to do with memory but, instead, with seeing numbers as shapes and patterns. On a side note, I dare you to come 4th in a memory championship, if you call it an intellectual failing.
He reckons it happened as a result of his seizures - I wonder if I threw myself around the room would I be able to count cards the next day 😂
this is incredible and if you don't see it then you never will see
@pgdrums12
A photon isn't the only quantum, it's the quantum of electromagnetic interaction. Strong interaction has gluons, weak interaction has W and Z bosons and quantum gravity has gravitons (the latter is currently still theoretical).
I just bought "Born on A Blue Day" today and it's fantastic. He is so descriptive of everything about his life and it's so interesting the way he thinks.
I'm really curious on how he sees those calculations in his head. it's amazing
division is easy in your head, you can go on forever because you only need to remember 2 numbers.
13/97:
fits 0 times, so say 0,
add a 0 -> 130 / 97
fits once, say 1, subract 1x97 from 130 = 33
add a 0 ->330
fits 3 times, say 3, subract 3x97 from 330 = 39
add a 0 ->390
fits 4 times, say 4
etc..
is actually very easy. 37x37x37x37 is way more difficult. the interviewer is just dumm.
They are also playing a lot of songs of the soundtrack of "The Royal Tenenbaums". An amazing movie too!
I really thought I was the only one who wasted his time to memorize 15 digits of pi lol!!
cheers man!
this is a simple case of "what doesnt kill you, makes you stronger"
edit: The Japanese kids learning maths with the abacus later in the show are amazing, they just show what can be done with learned ability. The ancient Greeks also trained thier minds I believe.. I'll be teaching my kids with an abacus I think, and getting them to learn higher grade work at home is certainly no bad thing! Interesting that the best schools in the World, the East Asian, are based on what the West USED to have in the 19th & 20th century - we need to bring back the will to succeed.
that is incredible. absoloutly stunning.
@WireMosasaur I've been diagnosed as being within the Autistic Spectrum too. You suggest that your friend has had synthesia. Have you ever experienced it? Just curious. I myself have experienced something similiar, perhaps not exactly the same, having to do with texture. I remember as a child there was a certain type of paper that some magazines were printed on that really bothered me. They made me feel like I couldn't breath, so I would cut long slits into it, to make it less smooth.
I wish I could know someone like Daniel. It would be wonderfull just sit and listen his numbers. Really amazing.
This gets me thinking, could this man be the start of a new human era of evolution.
I can do that, hold my beer...
I was born on the same day as this guy! Different year, of course, but January 31. Coincidence! A very cool one, at that.
After he finished saying pie I thought a wormhole was going to pop up as a congratulation prize.
now I'm gonna try to seizure myself to get this ability lol
why is this guy not famous!?
Division to an indefinite number of decimal places really isn't as impressive as it seems because it's not necessary to remember all the previous digits. For example, 10/7 = 1 + 3/7. First digit: 1. Next, 30/7 = 4 + 2/7. Second digit: 4. Next, 20/7 = 2 + 6/7. Third digit: 2. 60/7 = 8 + 4/7. Fourth digit: 8. 40/7 = 5 + 5/7. Fifth digit: 5. Next, 50/7 = 7 + 1/7. Sixth digit: 7. And so on: just blurt out whatever digit you're at and keep going on.
1/7 = 0.142857...
I believe it, i have aspergers symdrome and i watched life of pi and got obsessed with learning pi and since last ive memorised the first 100 decimals of pi
@WTFGOAWAY please tell me what show this is your talking about? this is fascinating
dont you just wish you had this talent
Can we all have a sense of humor about: Daniel’s special gift allows for countless math-language-related job opportunities and real world applications. Orlando can tell you past days of the week and past weather. LOL … it really is hit or miss with the savant gifts. 😆🍺🤯
Hahaha, I love hearing the Royal Tenenbaums score on random documentaries/television programmes.
Re-watch it and the "mistake" wasn't a mistake at all. They just did a jump-cut to about 30 seconds ahead. You can also tell by the LED timer they have sitting in front of the camera. There's no way he'd take 35 seconds just to get 12 decimals in.
Amazing Story, You are a beautiful Person and thank you for sharing.
Scientific theory has been blown away many times, its a continual advancement. Truly brilliant.
@porkinmycorkhole lol I didn't know what you were talking about until I watched the video. That is amazing!!!!
Watching this and studying for my Math exam tomorrow :)
I dont usually "like" videos, and get into all that stuff. But how do people dislike this video???? is he saying anything to harm anyone? People are so fucking stupid it irritates me. All it's about is a man doing what he wants to, and personally i think it's amazing. I'm just sick of people "disliking" a video just because the button is there.
Well he is not the only genius in the world. But yes, he has one of the most developed minds of this generation.
Such an amazing sound track
The American Beauty soundtrack goes very well with the documentary. x
I read his book "Born on a Blue Day" now during the summer for extra credit when I start my AP Psychology class. I love learning about this. It's really amazing I wish I could meet someone so extraordinary like both of them. ( xD I sound like a nerd- I'm a nerd for Psychology * shrugs*)
this is unbelievable. It's almost as if it is possible for humans to become greater than life itself. Astonishing.
he just made me cry. his smartness is unbelievable. great brain network, great amount of grey cells, great neurons. is he a prodigy or a real genius?
So 19MouBowSeTie88! (for example) is a bad password? If I had this password all I need to remember is Mouse and Bowtie and split it up along with the date I was born and a ''!'' at the end. How is this weaker than z93vh34Gpdq2448= given that someone uses a bruteforce program without restrictions on how many attempts it has in a given timeframe.
I don't doubt that you're right, just read some article about this some time ago on Huffington or something so I'm curious.
Even using a mnemonic device to memorize 22.5k numbers would be incredibly impressive. However, you are forgetting that he is also able to perform math calculations of arbitrary complexity at random. There is no application of any mnemonic device that would allow you to do this.
Wow, i didn't know, there's actually an estonian with a documental movie about him. Wow... And he is amazing.
oh my goodness, we're getting a new Einstein of this generation. That's awesome!
This just shows what the human brain is capable of, maths is not my cup of tea, I can speak English, dutch, french, spanish *fluently*, right now I'm learning arabic. Arabic is such a beautiful language, I can't write it yet but I am able to speak it
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Damn who pissed in your cheerios this morning....
Daniel Tammet is not an artist, you're just an ignorant pessimistic grump.
And I'm not even claiming that speaking 4-5 languages is "special" I just say I can, in reference to how hard I suck at math.
Who are you reffering to as a "superhuman"...... And you have no right to call another man, that you don't know lazy, I worked hard to where I am at life right now and so do millions of others.
Take your negativity somewhere else, if you like it or not, Daniel Tammet is an extraordinary person, capable of things you can only dream of
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You can hate on me, you have all right to, freedom of speech you know :)
Ok, is he real? We don't know, as long as there's no proof of him not being real or proof that he is, we don't know and we can not say this or that because than it'd be just an opinion based on our own thoughts.
You made one clear point, indeed he has never been publicated or anything, I first saw him on here, which dates from several years ago, this is really strange, to be the worlds smartest man eventhough not much people know of you.
Strange
He starts at 5:50 and 8 seconds later at 5:58 it shows that the tracker of the numbers is 5 lines from the bottom. 6 lines of numbers in a mere 8 seconds is crazy. Anyways, he says 3.141592653582 where you thought he was wrong, but he then continues and says 0974944. After the last digit in 3.141592653589 it should be 7932384. If he was wrong, the people keeping track would've stopped him. So technically your point is invalid. Also, don't take this personally, I'm just trying to make a point. :]
omg how amazing ! .. now im even more embarrassed how i struggle helping my kids w their homework!
i dont even remember what day of the week my kids were born, and no clue what weather we had ! oh goodness !!
it doesn't make sense that the man insists that they haven't let him memorise it and show it by testing him again, that doesn't prove anything that the original question didn't
@TheAthenasblades I do believe you're referring to the genius that is occasionally produced by autism. The case studies in this video is not based on autism but rather accidental neural connections created in the brain either by accident or by epilepsy. With what little I understand about epilepsy, I do remember from my psychology studies that it is caused by the 2 hemispheres of the brain passing too many chemical reactions from both sides. Split-brain surgery is/was a common cure for seizures.
@thebrutalizer15 Synesthesia is like you're sensing (seeing, hearing, etc.) something that was not really there when you see, hear, etc. other things. Like seeing these letters in color which in reality is black and feeling strange emotions out of letters. Daniel Tammet's synesthesia is a Number Form.
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I don't disagree that neuron transmitters are macroscopic, that's scientific fact. I also can see that you are knowledgeable, and it's great to converse with someone on this subject! I think we have to be careful though on what we label as 'pseudoscientific'. Many academics believe that modern psychology is pseudoscientific too. I believe that we have to keep an open mind to different possibilities, even if they do seem like science fiction. The universe is very mysterious.
cool man! thx for posting this.
13/97 is easy because 97 is very close to 100... so when you do the thing you can easily calculate each decimal: "0,..." then you do 130/97 so it will be "1,..." because just assume you're doing 130/100 and 33 remain, so you do 330/97 and it will be 3, but 30+3*3 remain and 390/97 will be 4 and 2 remain etc etc... it's an easy calculation that will get you all the decimals. Nonetheless, he did it quite fast, most people would take at least twice or thrice the time he took. Well "he did it" he certainly didn't use such a pragmatic method, his brain gave him the answer.
So the music playing during the section where he calculates pie - does anyone know what that song is? Because I've heard it other places and I'd like to buy the track.
I think it might help you to realize that 'Intelligence' isn't a single attribute like height for example. Intelligence can manifest itself in numerous ways, whether its logic + reasoning ,creativity, artistry, communication, emotional intelligence, musicality , perception + self-awareness, understanding,empathy, spirituality, - the list goes on.
For me though ,perhaps the most important is one (amongst several) which your post shows ; Inquisitiveness.
daniel tammet, the greatest genius of the 21rst century!
This is seriously something from Marvel. He has an event happen young that allows him to realize his potential. I hope he has a good life, I'm sure he has his struggles as well